Archive for August, 2006

World Exclusive: Vista Ultimate to be $450 on Microsoft.com Canada

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Microsoft.com Canada has released pricing for Windows Vista. Coincidentally, Microsoft has now removed the price list. Above is an image of the price list before it was removed. Sadly the page itself was not cached by Google in time. I should have thought about taking a local copy of the ...

Buy NewsFire, get Inquisitor Free

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

This weekend only, if you buy NewsFire, the most beautiful RSS newsreader on the Mac, you will get a free license for Inquisitor, the instant search extension for Safari that makes searching the web just like using Spotlight. Together, these two programs will transform your internet experience.  This is a rare ...

I’m still alive, I promise

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Yes, I am still a live. I’ve been quite busy working on a project for a client. I’ll have a little free time this week. Expect something then… [tag]Tech News[/tag] [tag]Internet Related[/tag] [tag]WebDEV[/tag] [tag]Thoughts[/tag] [tag]Life[/tag] [tag]Personal[/tag]

Richard Bowles’ Idiot’s Guide to Neural Networks

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Idiot’s Guide to Neural Networks If you use the ‘Search’ option on your browser to look for articles on Neural Networks or “Connectionism” (which is another name for the same subject), you will find a great many sites explaining what they are and how they work. Unfortunately, they all seem to ...

Mac Spoofs

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Mac Spoofs This one is particularly amusing: Activists Attack Apple With a Mac Spoof [tag]Tech News[/tag] [tag]Hardware[/tag] [tag]Internet Related[/tag] [tag]Thoughts[/tag] [tag]Life[/tag] [tag]Personal[/tag]

Photo-deblurring Research Debuts at Siggraph Conference

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Photo-deblurring Research Debuts at Siggraph Conference A Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Toronto research team debuted photo-deblurring technology at yesterday’s 33rd Annual Siggraph Conference in Boston, MA. The anti-blurring mathematical model can only correct a particular type of blur caused by hand motion. As digital cameras and camera cell ...

Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Photo Tourism Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change the way you think about digital photos forever. Gotta love sweeping overly dramatic product descriptions...(generally it’s good practice to avoid words like “forever"). Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, ...

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